Best way to backup cyrus system (lots of inodes!)

[John Hughes]

> I'm probably misremembering something from our testing, since the
> load created by running gzip for a few hours is definately more
> than any brief load spike while a snapshot was created.

How are you doing the actual backup?  I cannot recommend vxdump
too highly, it is rather awkward to use but *MANY* times faster
than tar or find/cpio, especialy if you're doing incremental
backups.